Djibouti is one of the world’s major shipping chokepoints, along with the Strait of Hormuz, the Suez Canal, and Malacca....
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Liban Gaal is one of an estimated 1.5 million Somalis living abroad who are helping the economy back home stay afloat....
In recent years, Said Garaad has seen an increasing number of Somali-Americans in Minnesota who are choosing careers in education....
The Prime Minister of Somalia Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke has urged closer cooperation with the Maltese government on the issuances...
Kenya's army is involved in a $400-million sugar smuggling racket in Somalia that also funds the Al-Qaeda militants it is...
A 12.03-carat blue diamond has been auctioned in Geneva for a record $48.4m (£31.7m) to a Hong Kong tycoon. Joseph...
EU leaders offered African counterparts aid and better access to Europe at a summit on Wednesday in return for help...
For Somali refugees, just stepping onto Canadian soil safe from the hell of war in their country is a relief....
The UN Security Council has passed a resolution authorising regional states to establish jurisdiction in trying pirates caught off the Somali...
A mass vaccination programme against meningitis A in Africa has been a "stunning success", say experts. More than 220 million...
Sony has announced that it will stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016. The firm revealed on its website...
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A high-speed printer that can produce circuit boards in minutes has won the Dyson engineering award. The laptop-sized Voltera V-One...
Chinese state media and netizens have decried high pollution levels in the northeast city of Shenyang, which activists have said...
For many of the three-quarters of a million migrants who have reached Europe's shores so far in 2015, Germany has...
Online hotel booking service provider, Jovago.com, has signed up the first Somalia-based hotels to its online booking platform. The signing...
Gen Katumba, who was on Friday flagging off Uganda Battle Group 17 to Somalia said soldiers involved in corruption, especially...
Their election leaflets cannot contain photographs, and they are not allowed to address men directly at campaign meetings. But in...
Although Saudi Arabia is a sunny country, vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent among Saudis, according to a Saudi physician....
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister John McCallum says he'll soon eliminate the government's ability to strip people of Canadian citizenship. "I...
The first group of Ugandan soldiers expected to replace their colleagues who have completed a year’s tour of duty at...
Rescuers in Pakistan have pulled a teenage boy alive from the rubble of a collapsed factory near Lahore 50 hours...
Somali officials said they expect a phased repatriation of more than 300,000 Somali refugees from Kenya within the next four...
Ethiopia’s minister of water and energy Motuma Mekasa said the French and Dutch consultants have failed to come up with...
A drugs gang who used Swansea’s landmark Dragon Hotel as a temporary base for supplying cocaine and heroin have been jailed for...
The Russian plane crash in Egypt last week was not due to technical failures, French aviation officials familiar with the...
This is Sheikh Abdulkadir Mumin pledging alligance to the Islamic State. He's a well-known al-Shabab figure. He was not based...
As Thousands of refugees attempt the perilous Mediterranean crossing each week, millions more remain trapped in semi-permanent displacement camps —...
The Emirati Armed Forces has started to use actively the Eritrean ports. According to our information, at least, three landing...
ETHIOPIA’S infrastructure Ethiopia’s Plan of Building Africa's Biggest Airport Face Shortage of Fundingbinge shows no signs of slowing down, with...
